Mohak Tripathi

I build backend systems, and write about what they teach me.

I'm Mohak Tripathi — a backend-heavy engineer, and right now the sole engineer building a multi-tenant B2B product from scratch, shipped to web, iOS, and Android.

Being an engineer-founder mostly means I own every decision and live with every one of them. I've spent the last few years somewhere in the unglamorous middle of the stack, and I'm slowly turning into the kind of engineer who cares as much about why a system lasts as whether it ships.

I don't know exactly what I'll be in five years, and that's the honest point: I'm here to find out, in the open. I expect to learn things that have nothing to do with what I work on today — and when I do, they'll end up here too.

This site is the long version of my thinking. Not tutorials reheated from the docs — the trade-offs I actually weighed, the things that broke in production, and the judgment that isn't already sitting in a search result. I write because the act of explaining is how I find out whether I really understood something, and because a year from now I'll want to know what past me was thinking.

It's also, deliberately, a small and durable thing. Plain HTML and one stylesheet, no framework, no build step, no tracking. It should load instantly, read well on any screen, and still work in fifty years — the same standard I hold the writing to. If you want the rules I'm building it under, they're on the principles page.

Mostly that means backend engineering and the systems I build — but I follow my curiosity, so expect the occasional detour into whatever I'm reading or learning.

Building in public

I work in the open as much as I can. The product itself is closed-source for now, but the pieces I can share — experiments, tools, and the occasional extracted library — live on GitHub, and the thinking behind them ends up here.

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